Here is a magazine article of the Molloys of Leamagowra,
As the people who are interested in the Molloys of Montrose.
They will see the names James and John they are the ones who emigrated from Leamagowr. My great grand father was Bernard Mulloy, I see that a Barnard was mentioned a few times, The church records were always recorded in Latin and Barnard was Latin for Bernard, so in Donegal, Ireland he would have been
know as Bernard. I came across this when I was researching and found a few Marias in my line but Maria was latin for Mary

If anybody is intereseted in tying in all the molloys lines from lemagowra, ardara, minesota, montrose I would be glad to help I have some photos of the family cottage that they would have lived in before emigrating to Montrose

Kind regards Jane

Ps There were so many different spellings because Irish catholics were denied an Eduction as part of the Penal laws.
The next generation up from John and James were luckier because they were educated in what was known as hedge schools which basically meant they were educated behind hedges in the fields while someone kept a look out for this service they had to find money to pay the teacher so they would have needed to be a little better of to find the mone